Subj : ANSI telnet client for linux?
To   : Stephen Walsh
From : Ryan de Laplante
Date : Mon Apr 23 2007 06:03 pm


 SW> Syncterm is a great little term program

 SW> http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/

Thank you.  I've just download it and gave it a try.  The first thing I 
realized is that I have to tell the gnome terminal to use IBM850 character 
encoding otherwise the high ascii characters on the BBS show as weird symbols.  
I was surprised because while using the syncterm menus I did not have to change 
the character encoding to see what the developer intended I see.

While connected to my bbs I noticed that there are certain block and shaded 
block characters that are rendered as a #.  My menus make heavy use of those 
characters so it doesn't look so hot in Syncterm... though Syncterm does do a 
good job rendering screens. These same characters are rendered properly using 
minicom.  I had my menus designed by a professional ANSI artist way back in the 
day, so I'm not changing them. 

I noticed when using the full screen editor in Maximus you have to press ctrl-k 
then ctrl-r.  Press ctrl-c several times until you get to the block you want 
then press ctrl-k then ctrl-c to quote.  When you press ctrl-c in syncterm the 
program exits.  When you do that in minicom it does what I want.

I ran doorway then opened the DOS edit program.  I was unable to use the ALT or 
arrow keys in doorway using syncterm.  I have not tried with minicom.  I very 
rarely use doorway.  

I was also unsure how to disconnect from the BBS without closing the program? 
Or how to get to some menus without closing the program.

Despite those issues syncterm seems to be a good terminal program. If ctrl-c 
didn't kill the program and it rendered the block characters the way I want, I 
would use it.  Instead I will stick with minicom, and Hyper Terminal on 
Windows.  Hyper Terminal rocks!!!!!!! (that was for Mvan :) I have mTelnet or 
whatever it's called and it is a great terminal.  But since Hyper Terminal does 
a 100% flawless job rendering ANSI, using with ZModem, and it is on every 
windows computer I sit down at, I got in the habbit of using it instead.


Thanks,
Ryan

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